When Trouble Comes Calling

Sometimes a second chance is all you need.

Ray Trainor is the unofficial law in Vermin County. At least since his return from the war in Vietnam. The quiet solitude he craves is shot to hell the day he pulls up to a ditched motorist on the Shiner's Trail. He knows the non-descript coupe is loaded down with moonshine. Knows the driver is most likely selling. But what he could never have predicted was the gut punch to his heart when he lays eyes on the hotter-than-hell brown-eyed blonde with her own set of sass and willful determination.

Maise Stevens desperately wants a second chance. That's why she escaped the hell of sexual servitude at the hands of a sadistic moonshiner and sex trafficker. But her run for freedom is cut short when she ditches the car she stole loaded with illegal moonshine. And, lordy, she couldn't have landed in a bigger danger to her heart than when she sets eyes on the hotly handsome, gun-toting stranger who sweetly and politely claims her heart, mind, body, and soul.

Ray knows Maise has secrets. He has secrets, too. But his won't get them both killed. Like hers. Secrets she's reluctant to confide. But he wants a future with her. To have that, he needs to keep them both alive. An impossibility if she won't trust him. And confide in him.

The battle of wills is about to begin as mountain stubborn clashes with willful determination in a title match likely to blow up half of Vermin County. Oh, yeah. Trouble has definitely come callin'. 

This book can be read as a stand-alone vintage romance, or as book 5 in the Second Chance series, an 8-book series set in the mountains of East Tennessee.